CMS

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) currently under construction at CERN promises to completely revolutionize current particle physics. The LHC will collide protons at a center of mass energy of 14 TeV, seven times higher than that of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, and at a luminosity more than ten times greater. The Higgs Boson is the last missing ingredient of the Standard Model. It's discovery will provide important information on the Higgs mechanism that is believed to be the source of all mass.

	Most excitingly the LHC will likely yield discovery of supersymmetry (SUSY) the ultimate symmetery of nature. The LHC should provide the discovery of most of these supersymmetric partners leading to a very extensive research program of sorting out their mass spectra and branching ratios. Experiments at the LHC may also address other more exotic possiblities such as extra space-time dimensions. The Compact Muon Spectrometer (CMS) is one of two large detector facilities being built to do experiments at the LHC. Both the LHC collider and CMS are currently under construction. Startup of data taking is expected in 2006.

People involved in CMS

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*Faculty:*
Schnetzer,Stephen	Somalwar, Sunil	Lath, Amit
Halkiadakis, Eva


*Staff:*
Stone, Robert (Senior Scientist)	MacPherson, Alick	Doroshenko, John


*Postdocs:*
Chuang, Sunny


*Students:*
Hits, Dimitry	Rose, Keith	Solomovich, Stanislav (undergrad)

Rutgers CMS Projects

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The Token Bit Manager Chip This is a custom-designed, radiation-hard IC that will will orchestrate the readout of the the pixel detector. The present design is being carried out at Rutgers using Cadence design software. A prototype chip will be fabricated in the DMILL process and then later translated to deep submicron.
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	The Control Network System This is the system for programming the various electronic ships that reside at the detector front-end. Rutgers has responsibility for the overall system and for several pieces of the electronics.
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The Pixel Sensors A severe requirement on the pixel detector is that it be able to survive in an exceedingly harsh radiation environment. At Rutgers we are working on developing sensors based on diamond which should, by at least an order of magnitude, be more radiation hard than those based on silicon.
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	The High Density Interconnect This is a high density circuit on which the pixel sensors and reaout electronics will be mounted. It utilizes state of the art circuit desnity.